A disgruntled David Sedaris fan overheard me telling my friend Jordan that I’d be seeing the famed humorist at the State Theater last night.

“Oh, I saw him last year,” he said, knowingly.

“Oh, great!” I smiled. “Was he good?”

“Well,” he sighed. “I always have a problem when people charge you fifty bucks just to hear them read from their book. I mean, Ira Glass did the same thing.”

He was really bitter about the practice, I could tell.

“I mean,” he continued, “I even wrote a letter afterwards. That’s one thing. If you write Sedaris a letter, he’ll write you back. A handwritten letter.”

“Really!” I said, semi-supportively.

I was thinking that perhaps this fan didn't fully appreciate how funny Sedaris's voice is just in itself.

And also, maybe he hadn't nearly peed his pants the time he heard Sedaris singing on "This American Life."

The fact is, Sedaris is definitely at least fifty bucks of funny. And the stories he told last night were not actually in his currently published books.

So. Overall, I was deeply satisfied by his performance.